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processor speed problems

monkeymedia

Posted 10 September 2005 - 12:39 PM

monkeymedia

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my PC was bought as an athlon 2.1ghz, which was fine however a couple of weeks later i noticed that when booting up the processor details had changed to read as a 1.6ghz processor. (this definitely changed i.e. it was not like this from initial purchase).

i proceeded to take the machine back where this was sorted out and the details then read correctly on booting up, however, the same thing has happened again.

I have checked the speed of the processor using Everest and it is running at 1.3ghz, i understand that a processor will not necessarily run at its full speed however 800mhz is too much of a loss!

Samm

Posted 11 September 2005 - 12:32 PM

Samm

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Yep, it looks like you've been mislead on the cpu speed by the people that sold you the system I'm afraid.

An Athlon XP 1500+ should be running at about 1.3GHz, which it is.
An Athlon XP 2100+ will run at around 1.7GHz. (You have to remember that the number before the + sign, eg 2100+ represents the performance rating, not the actual speed itself).

I would go back to the place that sold you the computer & demand an upgrade or a refund.